Biden steps in, delays transfer of Arizona Native sacred site to mining company

The Biden administration has put the brakes on a controversial land exchange that would have given a sacred Native American site to a multinational mining company by 11 March.

Parts of the handover had been rushed to completion in the waning days of the Trump administration, in an effort to give Resolution Copper control over Arizona’s Oak Flat region before or soon after Trump left office. Oak Flat sits atop one of the largest untapped copper deposits in the world, estimated to be worth more than $1bn.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/02/arizona-oak-flat-biden-administration-pauses-transfer-native-american-site-mining-resolution-copper